Jasmin Taylor

1. Sport

Telemark Ski Racing.

2. Born in

Colchester, Essex.

3. Currently living in

Ipswich, Suffolk.

4. Highest accolade

She is the 2017 British Champion. Ranked Number 4 in the world.

5. Biography

Jasmin Taylor is the first Briton to win a World Championship medal in telemark skiing. She is the 2017 British Champion, 2013 French Cup Champion and her best finishing position in World Cup is 2nd place. Based on her World Cup ranking, she is currently #1 for Great Britain and #4 in the world.

Jaz joined the British Ski Academy as an athlete aged 12, competing as an alpine skier. After becoming the youngest British Ski Cross Champion ever, aged just 15, she made the England Freestyle Ski Team in 2009. It was during this time Jaz started telemark skiing, a discipline for which she showed potential on a far larger scale, competing in her first World Junior Telemark Championship in 2011.

Jaz was invited to the World Junior Championships after the British Telemark Ski Team spotted her results in the French Cup Series following her frequent podium appearances. Jaz has been on the British Team ever since.

During winter, she bases herself in Chamonix, France, and is currently training for the World Cup season and the 2019 World Championships. Persistent and hard-working, Jaz’s exceptional talent for telemarking is matched only by her fierce determination and ambition to one day be World Champion.